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Series 12 - Japan 1947
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Date Range1947
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ProvenanceLucy Crosbie Morrison
Description

Diary, notebook, correspondence, publications, photographs. This series documents PCM's lecture tour to Australian occupational forces in Japan. There are some detailed and entertaining letters from PCM to his family describing his experiences, including his impressions of Hiroshima.

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MORR00706 Diary

Observations while in Japan; back section includes reference notes and lecture itinerary.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 3 April 1947 - 8 May 1947    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-1 Series 12
MORR00707 Notebook

Observations and personal reflections made while travelling through central and northern Australia and the Philippines to Japan, some section in shorthand; notes on birds of Japan; loose page of typed notes on Japan.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range April 1947, no date    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-2 Series 12
MORR00708 Letters home

18 letters, addressed variously to Lucy, Tom and James Crosbie Morrison. Most letters not dated originally, some have dates pencilled in. Letters are numbered consecutively on envelopes.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range April 1947 - May 1947    Quantity 2.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-3 Series 12
MORR00709 Miscellaneous papers

Includes customs declaration and other papers relating to items Crosbie Morrison brought back from Japan; notes on trip compiled by Lucy Crosbie Morrison.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1947 - c. 1987    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-4 Series 12
MORR00710 Letters to Crosbie Morrison from Lucy Crosbie Morrison

16 letters.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 4 April 1947 - 4 May 1947    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-5 Series 12
MORR00711 Letters to Crosbie Morrison from Tom Crosbie Morrison

6 letters

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 8 April 1947 - 28 April 1947, one letter undated    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-6 Series 12
MORR00712 Letters to Crosbie Morrison from James Crosbie Morrison

7 letters.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 8 April 1947 - 28 April 1947, two letters undated    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-7 Series 12
MORR00713 Miscellaneous

Notes on Japan, life and customs; correspondence: Major S. Wicks, Director of Army Education; Robert Haines, National Gallery of Victoria; W. Macmahon Ball, Allied Council for Japan; documents related to Crosbie Morrison's travel within Japan; Crosbie Morrison's official report of tour to the Director of the Australian Army Education Services, typescripts of two talks given in Japan.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range March 1947 - June 1947    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-8 Series 12
MORR00714 Miscellaneous

List of slides, no date; newspaper clipping 1960.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1947 - 1960    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-9 Series 12
MORR00715 Diary and photographs

Crosbie Morrison's diary, 1947; numbered negatives, 1 - 239; 53 prints, some not numbered, some duplicates; notebook containing index to photographs; one loose panoramic photograph.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1947    Quantity 4 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-10 Series 12
MORR00716 Miscellaneous reprints

2 maps, central Japan and southern Japan; The Hiroshima Panels by Iri Maruki and Toshiko Akamitsu - catalogue of exhibition, 'Melb Gallery, 1958' written in top right corner; English-Japanese Everyday Words and Phrases by N. Naganuma.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1958, Hiroshima Panels, other materials have no date    Quantity 1.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-11 Series 12
MORR00717 Sakura : Japanese Cherry

by Manabu Miyosi, Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Railway, revised third edition. 82 pages.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1941    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-12 Series 12
MORR00718 Japanese Birds

by Prince Nobusuke Takatukasa, Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Railway. 132 pages.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1941    Quantity 1 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-13 Series 12
MORR00719 We Japanese: being descriptions of many of the customs, manners, ceremonies festivals, arts and crafts of the Japanese, besides numerous other subjects

by Frederick De garis, Fujiya Hotel ltd, Miyanoshita, Hakone, Japan. 200 pages.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.    Quantity 1.5 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-14 Series 12
MORR00720 Guide to Japan

Cincpac Cincpoa Bulletin no 209-45. 104 pages; includes personal book plate of Crosbie Morrison.

 Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1 September 1945    Quantity 0.9 cm,
Inventory Identifier 12-15 Series 12
Published by the The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on AustehcWeb, August 2008
With support from R.E. Ross Trust, Lucy Crosbie Morrison and The University of Melbourne
Listed by Stuart Brash, Anne-Marie Condé, Libby Robin, Ann McCarthy, Michael Jones, Gavan McCarthy and Tim Sherratt.
HTML edition
Updated 5 April 2011
http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/morr/MORS0012.htm

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